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Thứ Năm, 23 tháng 4, 2015

Stocks were down slightly on Wednesday, after two days of being indicated higher. The trend that has remained in place for almost four years now is that investors keep buying stocks on weakness. 24/7 Wall St. reviews dozens of research reports from analysts each day in order to get new trading and investment ideas for its readers. Some analyst reports cover stocks to buy, while others cover stocks to sell or avoid.

These are this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations.

Agrium Inc. (NYSE: AGU) was downgraded to Sell from Neutral with a $95 price target (versus a $105.14 close) at Citigroup.

Altera Corp. (NASDAQ: ALTR) was downgraded to Neutral from Overweight with a $42 price target (versus a $43.24 close) at Piper Jaffray.

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: APC) was started as Buy with a $104 price target (versus a $92.56 close) at Nomura.

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) was raised to Buy from Neutral at a firm called Monness Crespi Hardt.

Apache Corp. (NYSE: APA) was started as Reduce with a price target of $63 (versus a $68.37 close) at Nomura.

RSP Permian Inc. (NYSE: RSPP) was started as Buy with a $34 price target (versus a $28.24 close) at Wunderlich.

SAP A.G. (NYSE: SAP) was raised to Buy from Neutral at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Tempur Sealy International Inc. (NYSE: TPX) was started as Outperform with a price target of $70 (versus a $57.88 close) at Wedbush.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE: TEVA) was reiterated as Buy at Argus, but the price target was raised to $75 from $64 (versus a $64.16 close) based on better returns down the road from M&A activity.

In case you missed out on Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades and downgrades, they were in shares of GE, IBM, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Encana, Halliburton, Rio Tinto, WhiteWave Foods and a dozen more companies.